Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 340 West 53rd Street in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. Located between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, the interior lot is two blocks west of the 7th Avenue subway station, serviced by the B, D, and E trains. Shirley Wang is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 3418 Third Avenue in Morrisania, The Bronx. Located between East 166th Street and East 167th Street, the lot is near the Simpson Street subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Franc Gjini of 2625 Grand Avenue Corp. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Revised plans have been announced for 231 East 94th Street, an upcoming 46-story residential skyscraper in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by The Chapman Group, the 524-foot-tall structure will span 385,831 square feet and yield 452 units in studio- to two-bedroom layouts with 113 of the homes dedicated to affordable housing, as well as ground floor commercial and community facility spaces and a rear yard. The development will replace two low-rise parking garages, an auto repair shop, and a vacant five-story apartment building between Second and Third Avenues.
Permits have been filed for a 14-story mixed-use building at 895 Erskine Street in East New York, Brooklyn. Located between Vandalia Avenue and Seaview Avenue, the lot is closest to the New Lots Avenue subway station, serviced by the 3 train. L+M Development Partners is listed as the owner behind the applications.
This week The Doe Fund broke ground on a six-story transitional housing development at 510 Gates Avenue in Brooklyn. Located in Bedford Stuyvesant next to the organization’s first transitional residence, which opened in 1990, the residential building will provide men experiencing homelessness with 200 beds and with the opportunity to join The Doe Fund’s award-winning Ready Willing & Able reentry program. The 44,658-square-foot 510 Gates is designed by Urban Architectural Initiatives and developed by Bolivar Builders and Round Square Development.
